The Function Of Topic Group Construction In Reading Teaching For The Cultivation Of The Middle School Students’ Communicative Competence

Reading teaching plays an important role in our middle school English education.However, traditional English reading instruction tends to be word for word reading,ignoring the content and background of the reading material. This phenomenon results inthe low efficiency of reading teaching, and also leads to the high school students lackingthe ability in language expression. Promulgated in2001, Full-time CompulsoryEducation English Curriculum Standards (experimental version) newly adds the topiccapacity to the requirements of language knowledge, and its2011version keeps it as arequirement. Moreover, the2011version detailed the targets of topic-capacity-building inAppendix IV. It proves that the topic capacity plays a very important role in the highschool students’ English learning.Through the study of the new curriculum, it is easy to find that the topic teachinghas its prominent advantages in constructing the communicative competence. The authorof this thesis studies a lot of literature works but find that the research on the topiccapacity is few and far between. This phenomenon is also performed in current Englishteaching in middle school. The students use their mother tongue mainly in their Englishclasses. The students lacks the opportunities to communicate in English.. Therefore, thisthesis paper is devoted to exploring how to use reading strategies in reading teachingeffectively to enrich the reading materials and to construct the topic groups, so as toachieve the purpose of improving high school students’ communicative competence.Under the guidance of the theories of English reading teaching and the theories of communicative competence, this thesis starts from the construction of topic groups inreading teaching, and analyses the functions of reading teaching in the cultivation ofcommunicative competence. Specifically, the analyses are from the following threeaspects: current situation of high school English reading teaching, the principles ofadoption the reading strategies and case studies on English reading class. This thesis usesthe experimental approach to compare the test results of the experimental group andcontrol group. The result of the test illustrates that the reasonable use of readingstrategies in reading teaching can effectively improve the students’ understanding of thereading materials. Then, students can get a better grasp of the reading material, so as toenable students to master the rich language materials and promote the students’communicative competence. At last, the author puts forward some reference views forthe topic teaching to help teachers to cultivate the students’ communicative competence.